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Michael Lipnick, MD

Michael Lipnick, M.D. is an anesthesiologist and intensivist at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital as well as the Program Director for the UCSF Anesthesia Global Health Fellowship.

He is a graduate of the UCSF School of Medicine and completed residency programs in Internal Medicine at Harvard’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Anesthesia Residency at UCSF as well as Critical Care Fellowship at UCSF.

Michael’s interests in public health focus on injury, prehospital care, perioperative care, education and the ethics and best practices surrounding global health collaborations. He has served as a contributor to the Global Burden of Disease Study Group and co-founded The Global Health Hub (www.globalhealthhub.org) and Global Partners in Anesthesia and Surgery (GPAS – www.globalsurgery.org). He is currently Director of Anesthesia and Surgery for the HEAL Global Health Fellowship (www.healinitiative.org).

Michael is an investigator in the UCSF Hypoxia Lab and has active research projects including pulse oximetry development for low-income countries, examining mechanisms of hypoxia tolerance, preconditioning, as well as outcomes in critically-ill patients with ARDS.